Kingston offers Flash drives designed for and certified by Microsoft® for use with Windows® To Go.
A feature of Windows 8 Enterprise, Windows to Go lets IT administrators provide mobile and contingency workers with secure access to the corporate environment.

Kingston Card Readers quickly transfer all your data – photos, videos, music etc.– so you can wait less and do more. They support a wide variety of formats, including microSD, microSDHC, SD, SDHC, SDXC and CompactFlash.

How do I format my flash card?

Warning:
Formatting a flash card will erase all the files on the card.
Most devices (i.e. your camera) that you use the flash card with will have a format feature.
Before you use this feature, make sure that this size card and type is supported by the device.
Also make sure that the format the device uses is compatible with any other device you might use it with (i.e. the camera may format in FAT32 but a digital frame can only read FAT).

If you are using a card reader and a PC to format the card, open "My Computer" in XP or "Computer" in Vista and Win7 and highlight the drive that corresponds to the card.
Make sure you choose the correct drive letter.
Then use the right mouse button to click on the drive.
Choose "Format" from the menu and click on it with your left mouse button.

If you are using a card reader and a Mac, open the "Go" menu and double-click on Utilities (If you do not see Utilities, double-click on Applications and then double-click on the Utilities folder). Double-click on the Disk Utility icon. On the Disk Utility Dialog box, click once on the flash card's active partition. Note: There will be two listings for the card, the first one is the active partition and the second is the volume label. Click the Erase tab located on the right side of the screen. Using the Volume Format drop-down, select “MS-DOS File System” from the list. Click Erase. The reader may require a firmware update. The firmware update is available at the link below. http://www.kingston.com/support/technical/downloads?product=fcr-hs219&filename=HS2_191_FW_RW01

My flash card no longer works in my device or I can no longer view files saved to the card. Can the files on the card be recovered?

If you have data on your card that is important to you, we strongly recommend that you use one of the two possible ways for data recovery (see below).
Kingston does not offer data recovery services.
For more information on our warranty policy please visit http://www.kingston.com/company/warranty.asp

Contact a company that specialises in data recovery services, such as Driver Savers at www.drivesavers.com or Ontrack at www.ontrack.com, or carry out a Google search for "data recovery".

Go to www.download.com, search for "data recovery" and download one of the many utilities for data recovery which are fairly simple to use. We suggest trying one of the free versions as they work just as well as the paid versions.
However for this option to work, the computer must assign a drive letter to the device.
Even so it is not guaranteed to work.
If it does not, option #1 would be your best bet.

Will my older camera support the 4GB or higher CF cards?

Some older cameras that only supported up to 2GB card may be able to take these larger cards.
Please check with your camera manufacturer to see if the camera can be updated to take higher capacity cards.

My flash card is not seen by my device or shows a card error in the device but it works OK in another device. Why?

There is a incompatibility between the card and the device.
This can be due to the device not supporting the capacity of the card or the card using a newer technology than the device is able to use.
In some cases, there are updates to the device that allow it to read newer or larger cards.
Please check with the device manufacturer or on our website to see what cards are supported with your device.

What does the X rating for flash memory mean?

The X rating is a measurement of the performance of the card.
It is determined by dividing the write speed of the card by 150KB/s*.
To put it another way, you can determine the write speed of a card by multiplying its X rating by 150KB/s. For example:

Can I boot from this Kingston flash card, set it as a fixed disk or run an OS from it?

My flash card no longer works in my device or I can no longer view files saved to the card. Can the files on the card be recovered?

If you have data on your card that is important to you, we strongly recommend that you use one of the two possible ways for data recovery (see below).
Kingston does not offer data recovery services.
For more information on our warranty policy please visit http://www.kingston.com/company/warranty.asp

Contact a company that specialises in data recovery services, such as Driver Savers at www.drivesavers.com or Ontrack at www.ontrack.com, or carry out a Google search for "data recovery".

Go to www.download.com, search for "data recovery" and download one of the many utilities for data recovery which are fairly simple to use. We suggest trying one of the free versions as they work just as well as the paid versions.
However for this option to work, the computer must assign a drive letter to the device.
Even so it is not guaranteed to work.
If it does not, option #1 would be your best bet.

My flash card that is above 32GB appears as unformatted in my device after formatting it in Windows. Why?

Many devices that use flash cards only recognise the FAT32 file system. Windows will automatically default the file system to exFAT for any removable storage device above 32GB. It will not give the option to format as FAT32. When you insert this card into your device, it will see the card as unformatted. The best practice is to format the card in the device in which you primarily use the card.